The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.62

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Of the manner of his death there are two accounts. According to one he contracted a fever and insisted on bathing in cold water, which so aggravated his illness that it terminated fatally. According to the other he gave expression to his suspicions of many of his nobles, whom he believed to have been secretly in correspondence with Shihāb-ud-dīn, and uttered menaces, until they became so apprehensive that they poisoned him. Immediately after his death they unanimously raised to the throne, on May 2, 1511, his son ‘Alā-ud-dīn Mahmūd II, who was in the camp, and sent Nāsir-ud-dīn’s body to Māndū for burial.